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President Donald Trump said the United States is 'not finished at all' with its attacks on Iran

US-Iran strikes: latest developments

Ships sail near the Strait of Hormuz off the eastern coast of the United Arab Emirates at Khor Fakkan on July 13, 2026

Boost despite concern

Oil prices jump on Mideast war, stock markets diverge

Floating power unit (FPU) Akademik Lomonosov is being towed to Atomflot moorage of the Russian northern port city of Murmansk on May 19, 2018

'Clear framework'

US eyes offshore nuclear reactors

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said his country was working towards a full Israeli withdrawal from the south

Lebanon PM says Beirut working for 'complete Israeli withdrawal'

A large police convoy transported Nicolas Maduro and Cilia Flores to the Manhattan courthouse

US trial of Venezuela's Maduro set for June 2027

The Kimi K3 model by Chinese startup Moonshot AI has fuelled buzz around the country's tech prowess, as experts say it could rival some of the more advanced offerings from US labs

Most advanced model

White House accuses China's Moonshot of stealing Anthropic AI

UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has pledged to ease cost-of-living pressures, unveiling a tax cut on electricity prices and a £2 cap on single bus fares

Driven by lower fuel prices

New UK PM Burnham gets early boost as inflation dips

German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul is on a three-country tour of Africa

New opportunities

German FM, on Africa tour, eyes business ties amid US, China pressure

Former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban declared Hungary's new political system 'illegitimate' in post on Facebook

Former Prime Minister

Hungary's Orban says graft case is 'pretext' to target his party

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio (C) during a meeting with China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Manila

Secretary of State

Rubio says at ASEAN meeting he expects 'positive' US visit by China's Xi

Patrice Motsepe is Africa's eighth richest person

South African tycoon Motsepe rules out presidential bid

Thorsten Frei was until now chief of the chancellory as well as minister for special tasks

Thorsten Frei takes over

Germany's Merz replaces leader ousted over surrogacy row

Britain's Prince George of Wales, flanked by Princess Catherine and Princess Charlotte, has become a teenager

They grow up so fast

Happy birthday, George! UK prince becomes a teenager

Patrice Motsepe (left) said Gianni Infantino had remained loyal to Africa

Emphatic defence

CAF chief Motsepe backs Infantino despite criticism

The Cockroach Janta Party protests have emerged as one of the biggest challenges to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government

'Cockroach' movement

India student protests keep up pressure on Modi government

This undated handout photo obtained on July 21, 2026, from Luke Bridgestock of the University of St Andrews shows a view of the Tinto River, with pollution from acid mine drainage, in the Iberian Pyrite Belt in southwest Spain

10 times greater

Metal mining's carbon footprint far larger than thought: study

A man rides a donkey to fetch water from a natural spring on a hot day near Ghezala on July 21, 2026. Tunisia has been experiencing a heatwave for a week, with temperatures exceeding 48 degrees celsius as people endure the ordeal of daily water and electricity cuts.

Extreme heatwave grips Tunisia as wide power cuts fuel frustration

Universidad Central may have lost, but by hosting the first major sporting event in Venezuela since the deadly earthquakes, they provided a welcome distraction

First major sporting event

'Beautiful game' provides Venezuelans with welcome distraction in wake of tragedy

Adolf Hitler's house on Braunau-am-Inn had become a meeting-place for neo-Nazis

Past repurposed, not erased

Hitler's Austrian birthplace transformed into police station

Firefighters and emergency services arrive on the site of an accident involving two trams that collided on the Erasmus Bridge, in Rotterdam on July 22, 2026, injuring 18 people including two in serious conditions.

Dutch port city

Trams collide on iconic Rotterdam bridge, at least 15 people injured: authorities

The daring robbery at the Louvre took place in broad daylight

$100 million were stolen

Louvre heist gallery reopens to public, but with nothing to steal

A woman uses a portable fan to cool herself down in Tokyo

Heat above 40°C

Japan suffers heat 'disaster' as cities hit by 'cruelly hot' days

The 43-year-old Drapaty replaces Oleksandr Syrsky

Following political crisis

Ukraine's new army chief: who is Mykhailo Drapaty?

Zaozerny is one of hundreds villages in the Central Asian country that has seen almost its entire population leave

In Kazakhstan, emptying villages and overcrowded cities

Temperatures are expected to hit 43C in parts of Greece

Outdoor work partially banned

Greece broils on year's warmest day as three-day heatwave peaks

The protests against India's education system are led by the online Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) movement, which has won millions of followers on social media since it was launched in May

The student movement in India challenging Modi's government

The two picturesque cliffs of Hanklit and Knudeklint overlook Denmark's Limfjord

55-million-year-old

Danish fish fossil cliffs set to gain UNESCO status

Founded in San Francisco in 2015 as a nonprofit research lab by Altman, Elon Musk and others, OpenAI burst into the mainstream with the launch of ChatGPT in 2022

OpenAI reports 'unprecedented' autonomous hack by AI agents

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